2023/012: The Return of Fitzroy Angursell — Victoria Goddard

2023/012: The Return of Fitzroy Angursell — Victoria Goddard

I confess that the thought of the likely reactions to my grand exits of the past two nights...pleased me greatly. Anyone who had doubts that I truly was Fitzroy Angursell might well still prefer to believe me a madman instead; but at least they could hardly deny that I was a madman with style.[p. 82]

It's difficult to review this without spoilers -- indeed, even the publisher's blurb gives the game away -- but I imagine there'd be added joy at the revelation, very early in this novel, of just what renowned poet, anarchist and mage Fitzroy Angursell, late of the Red Company, has been up to in the 30-odd years since his 'spectacularly bizarre disappearance'.

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